TimeToast Timeline of the 1920s

By sophia cosby
  • Henry Ford perfects mass production

    Henry Ford perfects mass production

    This innovation significantly reduced the time it took to build a car, from over 12 hours to about 90 minutes, by dividing the process into simple, repetitive tasks and using a conveyor belt to move the product to the workers.
  • The Palmer Raids

    The Palmer Raids

    The first series of raids were launched, leading to the arrest of about 200 radicals.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly grants exclusive drilling rights to the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry F.
  • Kellogg-Briand pact signed

    Kellogg-Briand pact signed

    the instruments of ratification were deposited in Washington, D.C.. The treaty, which renounced war as an instrument of national policy, was ratified by President Calvin Coolidge for the United States on January 17, 1929.
  • Charles Lindberg Crosses the Atlantic

    Charles Lindberg Crosses the Atlantic

    when he took off from Long Island, NY, in the Spirit of St. Louis. He landed in Paris, France, on May 21, 1927, after a flight lasting 33 hours and 30 minutes.